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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

The aurora on the Yukon River, in
Alaska, during the winter months is
said to be very brilliant and remark
ably beautiful. 1t commences in the
early fall and lasts with more or less
brilliancy throughout the long arctic
winter. 1t generally commences at the
setting of the sun, though in midwinter
it has at times been so bright that it
was visible at noon while the sun was
shining brightly. The rays of light
first shoot forth with quick, culver
ing motion, are then gathered and
form a great arch of fire spanning the
heavens. 1t glews for an instant like
a girdle Of FURNISHED gold; then, I'M
folding, great curtains of light drop
forth. These royal mantles of orange,
green, pink, rose, yellow, and crimson
are suspended and waved between
heaven and earth as with an invisible
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07
hand. and form q spectacle of extra
ordinary power.

THERE is story that is going around
in the French papers about the Gear.
While he was stopping recently In the
Castle Of Fredensborg he was fond
of taking little walks in the neighbor-
hood. One day he was accosted by
beggar woman with child in her arms.
In pure Danish and in the toughest
manner possible he told her to go
away and to be pretty quick about it.
The poor woman, terrified, started of,
but was followed by an officer. Here,
my good woman" said the officer, as he
put some pieces Of gold into her hand,
at is the Gar who sends you this, and
he hopes that you will forgive his APP
parent rudeness of moment ago. The
fact is, he has just returned from a
visit to his children, who have the scar
latina, and he was afraid that he might
bring the contagion to your child, if he
allowed you to approach his person"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07
Brutality OF frederick William.

Probably no young man of royal, or
even of noble birth, ever underwent a
training of more awful severity than
did Frederick the Great, of Prussia.
His father, Frederick William l., was
an arbitrary monarch and a domestic
tyrant. Economical to a fault he forced
his family to do without many of the
necessaries of life, and his cruelty to
all its members is unequaled in the
civilized society of modern times.
Prince Frederick, in his misery and in
dignation, poured forth to his beloved
sister, Wilhelmine. the following COM
plant, which probably does not in the
least exaggerate his woes:
Il am perpetually being told to have
patience, but no one knows what have
to endure. / am treated like slave
and beaten every day and have no re-
Taxation of any kind. L am forbidden
to read, to study the sciences or music,
and am scarcely allowed to speak to
ANYBODY:
any life is in perpetual danger. I
am surrounded by spies. [ have not
even enough clothes and am wanting in
most other necessaries of life.
"The King sent for me the other
morning. AS soon as 1 entered the
room he seized me by my hair and threw
me on the ground. After heving beaten
me with his fists, he dragged me to the
window, and tied the cord, which fast
ened back the curtain, round my throat.
l had, fortunately, time to get up and
seize hold of his hands, but as he pulled
with all his might at the cord 70 nd
my throat felt was being strangled
and screamed for help. A page rushed
in to my assistance, and had to use
force in freeing me from my fathers
hands,"
Who can wonder that, after years of
such treatment, he decided to run
away? His plans for flight were all
made when his designs were sus-
pected, and he was placed under ar
rest. Eluding the vigilance Of his
guards he then put on a French uni
form, and had actually stolen away.
his father.
The King fell upon him, tore his hair
out by handfuls, and beat him until he
bled, finally asking him why he de
serted.
"Becaase, said the Prince, In f1rm,
calm voice, because you do not treat
me like your son, but like slave
You are mean deserter! You have
neither courage nor honor!" screamed
the King.
More words followed, and the King
in o frenzy drew his sword, but was
prevented by his courtiers from injur-
ing frederick.
The Prince was then placed under
arrest, tried by court martial for de-
sertion, aud condemned to death. His
friend and confdant, Katt, was also
condemned, and executed before his
eyes. The Princes own sentence was,
of course, never carried out, but he
was imprisoned for some time, and
treated with general severity. -Yoa1th's
COMPANION.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

last all winter. Ten ladies were
gathered in one store recently, select
ing spray after spray for home decora-
tions. Halls covered with these
flowers are certainly prettier than
those decorated with gaudy fans or
Japanese trappings. This winter will
be one of triumph for artificial flowers.
Two better home costumes for young
girls than those here illustrated cannot
be found in town. They contain va
riety of good suggestions which any
dressmaker, professional or amateur,
can readily utilize. Novelty is aimed
at in some house dresses.
CONSERVATION reigned in old DR..
Catlin's home one night when it was
found that the chambermaid had gone
to ball with the Doctors pet collec-
ton of butterflies and bugs stuck all
over white tarltan frock. His en-
genealogical treasures, rich and rare.
were carefully pinned in cases with
locked glass doors on them. The Doc
tors wife had worn {. dress to some
festivity, ornamented with beaded but
terhies, and when the occasion arrived
for Miss Honora O'Halloran to attend
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the ball of the MEG innerty Association
with Barney Brannican, it struck her
that the bugs would work in beautiful
iy. She detached about half the col
lection, valued at some thousands of
dollars, and sewed them by their hind
legs to the most prominent portions of
her costume. Putting on a waterproof
she boarded car and went off to be
the belle of the ball. The Doctor dis
covered his rifed cases during the
evening, and wild was the night in his
house. A clue was obtained to the
fact from the cook, who remembered
to have seen Honora with box of
gold croton bugs" up in her room.
DIR. Catlin was up to let the housemaid
in when at all hours in the morning
she waltzed into the basement, her be-
dra9gled tarltan skirt covered with
the broken wings and severed legs of
the famous collection. When the
storm broke Honora advised the old
man not to take on so for STEW Guild
insechs
"Shure I'll catch yes glass cupboards
full in the back yard before the grass
grows again., said she reassuringly.
But the Doctor is mourning to-day
for his specimen of the Logotis Gin
chonita and the only known Zoometa
angepectalis.
To return to practical dress informa-
ton, there are the slightly elaborated
Jersey jackets, shown in the cuts. They
come in great number of colors; they
are very comfortable, and they show
off a plain. youthful figure to admirable
advantage. Chicago Ledger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

A 9-YEAR-oLD Eagleville Conn boy
was belated at Coventry, several miles
from his home, the other night, and,
being afraid to go home in the dark,
put his Yankee wits to york. Pretty
soon doctor of the place was informed
by small boy that a well-known citi-
zen of Eagleville was very i'll with ty-
phoid fever, and wanted him to come
to him Immediately. The doctor said
he'd go after supper, and asked the lad
to Join him at the table. The boy did
so, and soon after was snugly tucked
by the side of the doctor in his car
riage and rolling homeward. When
they arrived at the house of the al
legged sick man, the boy scrambled out
and the doctor followed and knocked
at the door. The citizen himself, in
usual health, opened it. He hadn't
been sick and hadn't sent for the doc
tor. Then they looked for the boy.
They couldn't find him. He had his
supper and ride home and was well out
of the way.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

self, and the dressmakers here and
abroad know it, and never fail to profit
in their business by one of her visits.
She is apt to spend day over each
dress, and thus she gives up the better
part of one week in eight at her dress
makers. She figures closely on every
item in the makeup of dress-far
more closely than I, who have to be
careful, and yet she makes no appear
ance of haggling over prices. When
I ask her what she wants
of fourth walking dress or a third
ball dress, she replies What else
have 7 to do with myself or my
money! pity her from the bottom
of my heart, for she would be happ er
If she had family or a speciality; but,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07
A Blind MAN on Memory.

From some open letters OF peculiar
interest to the blind by one of their
number we quote the following from
the Century: "As partial compensa-
ton, in the midst of his many discour-
agements, the sightless pupil possesses
one vital advantage over his compan-
ions. His memory, accustomed to
seize and assimilate definitions and
miscellaneous information at a single
hearing, acquires both marvellous
alertness and phenomenal retentive
capacity, which enable him to master
certain branches of study with singu-
lar ease and rapidity. Deprived of
books and without any very ready and
reliable method of making notes, he
obtains habit, often envied by the
seeing. of appropriating instanta-
neously anything addressed to his in
tellect through his hearing. Hence
the proverbially good memory of the
blind person. His mind is his memo
randum book, always at hand and
always open.
'"To the present writer, who never
remembers having lesson in anything
read over to him more than twice,
nothing Is more strange and more
amusing than a room full of school
children, with fingers crammed in their
ears, buzZing over lesson of three
pages for the fifteenth time. Equally
incomprehensible is it to see man
making q note of single address, or
lady referring to a shopping-list
Such observations force one to the
conclusion that the art of writing, in
valuable as it is, has been disastrous
to the human memory. People have
grown so to rely on piece of white
paper covered with black scratches,
that if this be lost or misplaced, they
are reduced almost to the condition of
creatures without intellect.
$50 marked is the advantage of the
blind in this respect as almost to atone
for their extra difficulties in others;
that is, the sightless pupil will acquire
scientific and philosophical studies
with rapidity which will counterbal-
ance the greater amount of time de-
manded by his less facile methods of
writing out exercises in linguistic and
cphering in mathematical branches;
so that in taking the regular course at
academy or university he will require,
labor than the average student
"Of not less value in after life is
this extraordinarily trained and de-
veloped memory. 1t enables the blind
to derive from lectures, conversation,
and general reading ten times the ben
eft of others, on whose minds single
mention of facts and thoughts makes
little or no impression.
"Thus the law of compensation is
seen working in all things, making
good ON one hand, approximately at
least, what is wanting on the other;
not by the special mysterious interior
ence of Providence or other power
with natural conditions and processes.
for the benefit of the individual, as
many claim, but through the inevita-
BILE sequence of cause and effect, by
which senses and faculties become,
through unusual training, abnormally
developed and their value radically
enhanced"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

CAsPAR SPIES, wealthy New York
merchant, is an uncle of August Spies,
.he anarchist editor who persisted by
the rope in Chicago. Speaking to a
New York reporter about his nephew,
Mr. Spies said: August was always
bright, and early showed considerable
talent. He was an enthusiastic advo-
cate of socialistic schemes. On his last
visit to this house in February we had
a talk after supper. He was very en-
thusiastic. I advised him to exercise
caution, and not to mingle with the
agitators of the kind of Most and
others. He replied: Uncle, if you
knew how the people slave in the mines
of Pennsylvania you would think diff
ferently. Working for starvation wages,
and at the mercy of the company, the,
are worse than slaves told him that
he might ieopardize his safety by going
too fer, to which he replied with some
excitement: Il would willingly die, in
the cause of the working people. He
was misguided, but his words were al
most a prophecy. He was very excit-
able, quick and nervous, generous to a
fault. willing to share his last penny
with his friends, the working people.
He would have made his mark had his
energies been directed differently. He
was too much occupied with his ideas
to think of love affairs. and then his
close relation to us would naturally be
a barrier which he, with his ideas of
strict right, would not ignore. If
Herr Most had not come to this coun-
try" continued Mr.. Spies, August
would have been alive to-day. Mos.'s
infammatory ideas completely took
possession of him. 1 could see the
change myself, and remarked it to him.
He was peaceful propaganda at first.
His life was devoted to his one idea
and the maintenance of his family.
The story of the love affair is as silly
as it is untrue"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07
How the Twelve Died.

The following brief history of the
fate Of the Apostles may be new to
those whose reading has not been evan
gelical
st. Mathew is supposed to have suf-
fered martyrdom, or was slain with
the sword at the city of Ethiopia, in
Egypt.
st. Luke was hanged upon an olive
tree, in Greece.
St John was put into O caldron of
boiling oil at Rome and escaped death.
He afterward died q natural death at
Ephesus. in Asia.
ST. James the Great was beheaded
at Jerusalem.
St. James the Less was thrown from
a pinnacle or wing OF the temple, and
then beaten to death with O fuller's
club.
st. Philip was hanged up against a
pillar at Hierapolis, city OF Phrygia.
ST. bartholomew was fayed alive
by the command of barbarous king.
st. Andrew was bound to cross,
whence he preached unto the people
until he expired.
st. Thomas was run through the
body with lance, at Coromandel, in
the East Indies.
st. Jude was shot to death with ar
rows.
st. Simeon Zealot was crucifed in
Persia
st. Matthias was first stoned and then
bebeaded.
st. Barnabas was stoned to death by
the Jews at Salania.
st. Paul was beheaded at Rome by
the tyrant Nero.-EUdngeljst.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

A MILLERsTowN co. young man not
long since wrote two postal cards on
entirely different subjects. He then
turned them over and addressed them,
but by mistake placed the addresses on
the wrong cards. The result was that
the shirt-maker in Harrisburg got a
polite invitation to take a carriage-ride
In Huff Wards barouche, while the
young mans girl was made frantic by
receiving the following: "Please send
me sample of the stuff your shirts
are made Of.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

THREE years ago Mrs. George Win
ter, of Cincinnati, while eating, let
slip piece of bone down her wind
pipe. She suffered great agony, as it
had lodged in one of her lungs. Hem
orrhages succeeded each other in rapid
succession. Her coughing spells were
continuous and wasted her from ro-
bust woman to mere skeleton. On a
recent morning, as usual, Mrs. Winter
awoke with terrible spell of cough
ing, followed by hemorrhage. Sud-
denly she felt gradual rising pain on
her left side. The singing pain rose
higher and higher, until all at once she
felt hard substance emerge from her
throat and fill her mouth. Splitting it
out upon the floor, like a revelation it
struck her that this was the bone she
had swallowed three years ago. A
closer examination proved that she had
discharged the bone.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

THE London livestock Journal
says that in England conflicts between
horses and bulls are not uncommon
and are usually disastrous to the horses.
A fiery colt often chases cattle in the
pasture, biting them as they run; but
when he tackles bull the latter usu-
ally won't run, but charges the colt
broadside and often kills him. Having
come off best once, the bull thereafter
is apt to charge horses that are grazing
quietly. 1t is never safe to leave any
bull in a pasture with horses.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

The american Andlyist warns the
public against the use of the ordinary
toilet soaps and towels found at hotels.
It says some soaps are made of the
cheapest and nastiest materials, very
often rank and disgusting but for the
odor with which they are disguised.
Some of them, it says, act as an irri-
tant upon the skin, and their applica-
ton upon the delicate cuticles of babies
and young children sometimes results
in painful eruptions and running sores.
It says that the towels used at hotels
are not entirely freed from diseased
germs by having been washed, and it
advises its readers who travel to take a
cake of soap and their own towels with
them.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07
Gloves.

Excellent qualities of English walk
ing gloves of fine dogskin, to wear
with street dresses this winter, are
fastened smoothly over the wrists with
four large gilt buttons. There are
black kid bands at the top of the
glove. They are made with pique-
stitched seams, and embroidered on the
backs with heavy chain-stitching.
Dark mahogany, terra-cotta, tan, dark
laurel-moss, olive green, and golden
brown are the most fashionable shades.
Warm winter gloves are manufactured
of finest Saxony cashmere, with very
long Jersey wrists that cling closely to
the arms. These are shown in dark
cloth shades, in six and eight button
lengths.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

A MINNESOTA office-seeker. after be-
ing disappointed by Gov. McGill, went
home and told his wife about it, and
gave his opinion of the Governor in un-
revised language. His 5-year-old boy
heard him, and that night the mother
cautioned him never to use such Ian
guage as his father had. as it always
wicked to swear, mammal" he asked
"Y-e-s. But God will forgive sins, !"
she said. Then the boy kneeled and
prayed: Forgive me for all my sins,
keep me while sleep-and-d-n
Gov. McGill."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

TEDDY WICK, an expert barber in
London, recently undertook to shave
fifty persons in sixty minutes for a
wager of $75 side. He is said to
have actually shaved seventy-seven in
three seconds less than an hour, thus
easily winning the stakes. He shaved
twenty-one in the first fifteen minutes,
fourteen in the second quarter-hour,
nineteen in the third, and twenty-three
in the last fourteen minutes and fifty
three seconds. Since this performance
j. Filbrick, of the same city, has
offered to back himself to beat the
performance of Wick for gold or sill
yer medal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

The Jackson Patriot says il the SAL
Walton Army is TO continue Its peregrina-
sions and choruses on the public highway
II is prepared TO contribute to fund 70
cod them to singing &C hool.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07
yhs Trns 9ortheruer.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

ROBERT BONNER has retired from the
New York Ledger, which will here
after be conducted by his three sons.
Mr.. Bonner began work at the print
er's case in the office of the Hartford
Courant forty-eight years ago, and
purchased the New York Ledger in
1851. He is GA years old.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

The salt manufacturers of Iosco Coun.
ty have agreed to shut down their works
December 1. and remain idle until March
or April next. Eight firms handle the
saline product in the county mentioned,
and 1904 barrels constituted their total
output for the month of October.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

WE do not wish to commit ourselves,
but we really believe that the engine
of an ocean steamer is the best screw
driver we ever saw.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

The first known circulating library
is said to be that of st. Pamphilus OF
Ca sarea, who in 800 A. ID. collected
80, 600 volumes to lend out.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07

WHATEVER we beg Of God, let us
also work for it.-Jtreny Taylor.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-07-09
THE PRESIDENT AND THE G. A R.

Never has political bigotry and spleen
In this country received a more deserved
and whitening excoriation than is admins
tered TO certain element (no less conspic.
Of the G, A. X by the fact the President
has been constrained to withdraw his de.
cision to visit the city of st. Louis dur.
ing the holding of National Encamp-
ment of the G. A. r. in that city in Sep
TENDER next The invitation was extended
by the mayor and common council as well
as the st. Louis Exchange Board of Trade
and other civic bodies-the same that eX-
tended the invitation to the G. A r. to
hold 1t annual encampment in that city,
and rejoiced In its acceptance.
In the ordinary walks of society, If
party send out invitations and certain pro.
posed guests decline because others have
been invited who are dstasteful to them,
they are expected to have the decency to
decline with thanks and hold their ton.
CUES. To do otherwise would be an In.
suit to the host and an act of black guard.
ism
When the G. A. r., through Its con.
stituted organs, accepted the invitation to
partake of hospitalities Of St Louis, they
made no reservation as to other guests to
be invited. To have done so would have
been an insult to the city, though they
might even have had reason to fear invi.
tations not entirely to their taste might be
extended. But when such invitation pro-
posed that their meeting should be hon.
ored by the presence of the chief masis.
trate of this great Republic and the com
mander In. Chief of Its army and navy,
could the authorities of ST. Louis-the
whole country indeed-learn with any
other feeling than that of inexpressible In
dignation and disgust that such invitation
was objected to-
Yet so II was by a Coterie of bummers
and blackguards that affect to run" the
Iowa wing Of the G. A. r. They not
only threatened that II the invitation
to the President was not withdrawn
their own POSTS would refuse to partici.
pate In the Grand Eneampment, but even
threats of insult and personal violence
against the President were INDUCED In.
The excuse given for this amazing OK.
hibition of blackguardism was that the
President had vetoed certain bills passed
by Congress granting special pensions to
certain members of the G. A. r. The
President Is an officer of the government
bound by the most solemn oath and san.
ctions to perform his duty honestly and
conscientlously, without fear, favor or af.
lection. A pension fraud is as mean as
any other fraud on the government, and II
the President, In the discharge of his duty
Is impelled to put his heel on such a